The Carmine Incense

The Carmine Incense is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Athifi Pearlamused. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. One to two singers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a otoga and a irede. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance is very slow. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the eyo scale and in the otoga rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to syncopate, alternate tension and repose and play staccato.

• Each singer always should be delicate. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The otoga always does the main melody and should feel calm.
• The irede always should stress the rhythm.
• The Carmine Incense has the following structure: a passage and an additional passage possibly all repeated.
• The first simple passage is voiced by the melody of the otoga and the rhythm of the irede. The passage is to be moderately soft. The otoga ranges from the wispy low register to the quavering middle register and the irede stays in the sparkling high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The second simple passage is voiced by the melody of the otoga, the harmony of the irede and the rhythm of the singers reciting any composition of The Poetic Reason. The passage is to be very soft. The otoga ranges from the quavering middle register to the dark high register, the irede stays in the quavering low register and each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x-xx-x-xxxx-xx-x-xO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The eyo hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th, the 10th and the 11th.
• The otoga rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In midspring of 262, The Carmine Incense was created by the elf Athifi Pearlamused in Fernsweet